Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...this hearing the lawyers who presented the petition for the charter, President Eliot, and other gentlemen who spoke in favor of it, made no effect on the bostile committee of the legislature. Then Mrs. Agassiz arose to plead her own cause. Her address was a notable example of the effectiveness of public speaking; at its close the committee...
...very successful basketball meeting held in the Union last night, P. B. Francis '08, manager of the University team, reviewed the past history of basketball and outlined in detail the plans for the coming season. I. S. Broun '08, captain, spoke about the very encouraging prospects of this year's team and described the manner in which the University squad will be chosen. E. L. Burnham '07, who is coach of the University team this year, subject to the approval of the Athletic Committee, emphasized the necessity of team play and hard training in producing a winning team. W. Randall...
...speaking commenced at 9 o'clock, when President Eliot rose to announce the first speaker. In his preliminary address President Eliot spoke in part as follows: "This dinner was planned and carried into execution by the Harvard Memorial Society, an organization which endeavors to commemorate in fitting fashion all the occasions worthy of notice in connection with this University. A Memorial Society! What a prodigious memorial John Harvard has in this University, which men have raised here on his foundation. The young scholar, seven years at Cambridge University, coming to America as a young, untried minister, dying within...
President Eliot spoke on "Municipal Government by Commission" last evening in the Living Room of the Union under the auspices of the Political Club...
Several of the citizens of Cambridge objected to the proposal to erect a new bridge, and a public hearing was held, at which President Eliot, Major Higginson, and Mr. A. C. Blackall, a noted architect of Boston, spoke against the plan, as well as many of the members of the Cambridge board of aldermen. The reasons given were that the new bridge would not be on the same route as the old one, and that as the bridge was only to be a temporary structure, it would not be substantial enough to justify an expenditure of $35,000. In consequence...